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Post by Cyan_Griffonclaw on May 7, 2017 2:06:12 GMT
The monotone was part of his alienness. The codex even said, few Qunari speak the common tongue, and even fewer speak it well. Maybe it's just me, but Sten didn't strike me as being entirely monotone. In instances where he speaks of things he misses, like the smell of tea and incense in Seheron, his voice does have a subtle sound of longing as if he's sad. Maybe I'm just hearing things, but I thought the VO was pretty good in his subtlety. Plus, it added to the deadpan. The Arishok was anything but monotone though, and we should all be grateful. +100 lore for you. Well said. |
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Post by Light on May 7, 2017 6:05:44 GMT
Well there is a lot of things Bioware does, that makes no sense. If it is true that Asari do not have male ids or concepts why the fuck are they attract to males? Shouldnt that be seen has to strange and weird. They were created to be sexy blue babes that fuck everyone in the galaxy. So ya I am not really that mad at the lore being altered here, it is for the best. Liara in ME1 says that male and female have no or very little meaning to the asari but because they have material instincts that is why other races considered them "female" which is pretty flimsy reasoning when you think about it. I would consider them female as they incubate a child inside a womb, expel the baby via a birth canal and feed that baby with mammary glands. The Asari are the very definition of a mammal female. In the OT they only used the terms mother and father on a child by child basis. A single Asari could be mother to two children and father to one, but still generally considered female. |
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Post by phantomrachie on May 8, 2017 9:08:51 GMT
That's kinda who he is though. He's a spy for the Qun and I think he has been for a while by the time of DA:I. He has his Chargers and I think what the implication is, is that he's far removed from his people and he likes that because he can allow himself to be different when his clansmen are not there to enforce their Qunari ways on him. That's also why the Chargers are diverse and why he makes a point out of Krem being a man when, according to the Qun there is no gender (or everyone is something specific, I can't remember, but Sten says it in Origins). That's why the choice in his companion quest is to fulfil his job as a Qun and sacrifice the Chargers or fuck the Qun and be who he really is. I get that, it still doesn't make much sense to me, since he was raised in the Qun his whole life, and the story gives no hint of how he developed an actual personality. In DA2 doesn't Talis say they usually use converts like her for covert actions? I disagree, I think the interactions with Bull gives alot of hints to how he developed his personality. He said that was it was discovered that he could fight and lie, he was assigned the role of Ben-Hassrath. This indicates that he has a more flexible personality and outlook, than say Sten. He then says how difficult fighting on Seheron was for him and that his experiences made him start to question the Qun (basically PTSD) so he turned himself over for re-education/treatment. Based on the result of his treatment and his experiences on Seheron, he was chosen to go pretend to be a Tal-Vashoth to spy on the rest of Thedas and to do this he formed a Merch group. Mercenaries tend to be more relaxed and less formal that regular soldiers so in order for Bull to play the part properly this is how he had to become and he seems to prefer being this way so it became his actual personality. |
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Post by erikson on May 9, 2017 1:47:53 GMT
I get that, it still doesn't make much sense to me, since he was raised in the Qun his whole life, and the story gives no hint of how he developed an actual personality. In DA2 doesn't Talis say they usually use converts like her for covert actions? I disagree, I think the interactions with Bull gives alot of hints to how he developed his personality. He said that was it was discovered that he could fight and lie, he was assigned the role of Ben-Hassrath. This indicates that he has a more flexible personality and outlook, than say Sten. He then says how difficult fighting on Seheron was for him and that his experiences made him start to question the Qun (basically PTSD) so he turned himself over for re-education/treatment. Based on the result of his treatment and his experiences on Seheron, he was chosen to go pretend to be a Tal-Vashoth to spy on the rest of Thedas and to do this he formed a Merch group. Mercenaries tend to be more relaxed and less formal that regular soldiers so in order for Bull to play the part properly this is how he had to become and he seems to prefer being this way so it became his actual personality. Agree to disagree.  |
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